Xavier Woods was recently a guest on the Corridor Cast podcast. During the interview, Woods spoke on a wide variety of topics.
One of the most interesting parts was when Woods revealed the bet that he made with Vince McMahon. This wasn’t your typical bet, it had to do with his career in WWE and if he could get the New Day booed.
Here is what Woods said (h/t to Fightful for the quotes below):
“When they let us make the group, we were good guys. For the industry terms, we were baby faces, and we thought we should be bad guys, heels, and after a while, some things happened and people were chanting, ‘New Day sucks’ and it’s like, ‘Ok, yes. Cool. They’ll let us turn a corner and we can be bad guys now’, and they thought that since Kofi had been a
baby-face for so long that they wouldn’t boo him, and so, to me, I was like, ‘No, we’re in control of that. I guarantee you…’I went to Vince McMahon and I was like, ‘If you give us… if you give me a microphone four weeks in a row, I guarantee you that they’ll boo Kofi Kingston, and he was like, ‘You really believe in this that much?’ I said, ‘Yes, I believe that I can do it’, and he goes, ‘Four weeks? And if you don’t do it in four weeks then what happens?’ I said if I don’t do it in four weeks, you’ve got 60 dudes in developmental that deserve this spot more than I do, [and Vince is like], ‘I can send you home? Get ready’, and I said, ‘You should if I can’t do it. If I can’t make good on this then I don’t deserve to be here’, and he’s like, ‘Alright’.”
A pretty ballsy move from Woods.
On a related note, Jerry Lawler revealed why Vince called him during the Royal Rumble kickoff show. You can read more about that here.